Robert M. McNamara, Jr.

Robert M. McNamara, Jr. is Managing Director of ManattJones a Washington D.C. government relations, lobbying and consulting company.

According to the company's website "McNamara is involved in the Firm's government, litigation and crisis management practices and serves as Managing Director of Manatt Jones Global Strategies, LLC, the Firm's international consulting subsidiary".

"He has extensive experience working on extremely complicated issues with senior government officials, including members of Congress, inspectors general, regulators and grand juries. Prior to joining Manatt, Mr. McNamara was General Counsel to the CIA, a position appointed by President Clinton in November 1997. In that capacity, Mr. McNamara served as the Agency's chief legal officer, ensuring the CIA complied with U.S. and international law in providing foreign intelligence to the President, the National Security Council and other senior officials executing national security policy," his biographical note on the website states.

"Before his appointment as General Counsel to the CIA, Mr. McNamara served as Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement at the Department of the Treasury, where he supervised lawyers assigned to the U.S. Customs Service, the Secret Service, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN). While at the Treasury, he specialized in financial institution fraud and international money-laundering issues, and represented the Department and senior Treasury officials during numerous congressional inquiries and investigations. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director of Enforcement at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees institutional markets and regulates commodity professionals'" it states.

Contact information
Tel: 202.463.4360 rmcnamara@manattjones.com